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PHOTOS: Picasso's Drawings Travel The US

Posted 06.01.2012

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Picasso's iconic works are embedded permanently in our collective art memories, yet there are so many pieces just as mesmerizing and innovative which ...

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WATCH: Leonardo Da Vinci: The Movie

Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Mona Lisa, Ebay, Video, National Gallery, Da Vinci Movie, Ticket Scalping, Salvator Mundi, Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo Live, Art Movie, UK Arts, Leonardo Da Vinci Movie, Leonardo Movie, Leonardo Exhibition, Arts News

In an age of crossovers, it seems like artists of every medium eventually transitions over to the big screen. The latest manifestation of this trend? ...

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Why Leonardo Thought He Wasn't Good Enough

Christina Patterson | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: London, National Gallery, Art, Youth, Samuel Beckett, Leonardo Da Vinci, Beauty, Genius, Arts News

You'd have thought that someone who seemed to spend most of his time looking for excuses not to paint, and who finished only about 15 paintings in his whole lifetime, might not be all that good at it. But you would, of course, be wrong.

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"Is This The Greatest Art Exhibition Ever?"

AP/The Huffington Post | By JILL LAWLESS/The Huffington Post | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Mona Lisa, National Gallery, Leonardo, London Exhibition, Leonardo Da Vinci, Da Vinci, UK Arts, Lost Leonardo, Arts News

LONDON -- It has masterpieces, media frenzy, a contested gem -- everything but the "Mona Lisa." London's latest blockbuster art show confirms Leonardo...

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Artist Christo Gives National Gallery 2 Collages

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 01.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The artist Christo is giving two original collages from his upcoming "Over The River" project to the National Gallery of Art in Washingt...

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Strike Puts Major Leonardo Da Vinci Exhibit In Danger

The Observer | Dalya Alberge | Posted 12.10.2011

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The National Gallery in London is facing the prospect of major strike disruption during next month's Leonardo da Vinci blockbuster exhibition, the Obs...

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Couple Gives Massive Art Collection To All 50 States

Priscilla Frank | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Herb and Dorothy 50 X 50, Conceptualism, National Gallery, Vogel, Herb and Dorothy Vogel, Herb and Dorothy, Modern Art, Vogels, Minimalism, Sol Dewitt, Megumi Sasaki, Art Collectors, Arts News

In an age crazy for standards and guidelines to legitimize and explain life's mysteries, it is rare to hear the words "you just know." Husband and wif...

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Beeswax Art Exhibit Opens At McLean Project For The Arts

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 11.15.2011

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McLean artist Georgia Nassikas has an exhibit opening Thursday night at the McLean Project for the Arts. The exhibit is in MPA's Ramp Gallery, and run...

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Twin Leonardo da Vinci Paintings To Be Reunited

Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Milan, National Gallery, Louvre, Virgin Mary, John the Baptist, Leonardo Da Vinci, Renaissance, Religious Art, Virgin of the Rocks, Angel Gabriel, Guardian, Telegraph, Nicholas Penny, Medici, Arts News

Organizers in London and Paris have agreed to an unorthodox plan that will place two nearly identical Leonardo da Vinci paintings side by side. The Vi...

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Two Poussin Paintings Vandalized With Spray Paint

Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Adoration of the Shepherds, National Gallery, 17th Century, Adoration of the Golden Calf, Crime, Religious Art, Graffiti, French Painter, Art Vandalism, UK Arts, Nicolas Poussin, Arts News

Two paintings by the prominent 17th-century French classicist painter Nicolas Poussin were vandalized Sunday, by a man with a can of red spray paint. ...

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Astronomy And LEDs: The Little Universes Of Leo Villareal

Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Installation Art, Leo Villareal, National Gallery, Led, Multiverse, Art Meets Science, Science, Washington DC, Firmament Ii, Palm Beach, Norton Museum, Video, Astronomy, Slidepollajax, Florida, Arts News

It's often easiest to describe artist Leo Villareal's LED displays in astronomical terms. In "Firmament II," now showing at the Norton Museum of Art, ...

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Mona Lisa's Miles: The Misadventures Of Leonardo's Masterpiece On The Road

ARTINFO | Posted 09.03.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Mona Lisa, National Gallery, Art, Louvre, Artinfo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lisa Gherardini, Renaissance Painting, Renaissance Art, Painting, UK Arts, Arts News

Italian historian Silvano Vincenti, known for his scheme to dig up the bones of Lisa Gherardini, the presumed model for the Mona Lisa, is trying to br...

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Missing Leonardo Da Vinci Painting To Be Shown

Posted 08.29.2011

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A lost work by Leonardo da Vinci has been found in a private American collection. The painting " Salvator Mundi," (below) which shows Christ raising h...

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Da Vinci Masterpiece To Get Wider Audience

AP | By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Posted 06.21.2011

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WARSAW, Poland -- It's finally been decided: Poland's most precious painting, "Lady with an Ermine" by Leonardo da Vinci, will be allowed to travel to...

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Woman Attacks 'Evil' Painting

AP | By BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: National Gallery, Art, Tahiti, Museums, Two Tahitian Women, Washington DC, Paul Gauguin, Gauguin, National Gallery of Art, Painting, Arts News

WASHINGTON -- A woman accused of pounding on a painting by Paul Gauguin and trying to rip it from a wall at the National Gallery of Art told police th...

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Gauguin Painting Attacked

The Washington Post | Timothy R. Smith and and Martin Weil, Sunday, April 3, 10:07 PM | Posted 06.03.2011

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A painting at the Gauguin exhibit in the National Gallery was attacked last week by a gallery visitor, a rare and unusual incident that provoked consi...

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'Alfred Stieglitz New York' (PHOTOS)

Bonnie Yochelson | Posted 05.25.2011

The show and the book bring together Stieglitz's photographs of New York City for the first time since 1932, when he showcased his own New York photographs at his midtown gallery, An American Place.

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'Virgin Of The Rocks': Restored Da Vinci Painting Reveals Hidden Details

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — A restoration project for Leonardo da Vinci's "Virgin of the Rocks" has revealed new details and suggest the Renaissance artist may have pa...

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INTERNATIONAL ART: High Scoring Centennial At National Gallery, South Africa

artcritical.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Africa, National Gallery, South African National Gallery, Centennial, South African Art, Arts News

Riason Naidoo has hit it right. Young, smart and very individual, Naidoo is the first Black director of the Iziko South African National Gallery, appo...

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ART INSTALLATION: Exhibition At Brooklyn Museum Redefines Female Pop Artists

artdaily.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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BROOKLYN, NY.- The first major exhibition to explore in depth the contributions of female Pop artists, Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1...

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Obama's Modern Art (PHOTOS): White House's New Art On Display

AP | NANCY BENAC | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP) You can't see it, but there's a quiet cultural revolution under way at the White House. The Obamas are decorating their private space...

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